Rajdeep Sardesai alleges hacking, deletes Twitter account; wife Sagarika complains against trolls

April 30, 2016, NewsCrunch

India Today senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai deleted his Twitter account on Saturday afternoon alleging that his account had been ‘hacked’.

His abrupt action follows comments on Twitter that Rajdeep Sardesai’s account had been sending abusive personal messages since Friday evening to those who had been tweeting critical remarks.

On Saturday afternoon Rajdeep Sardesai posted a message saying enough was enough.

His last tweet read: “How low will some people now stoop? Hack my account? Put out false messages? When will this end? Time to disable account. Enough is enough”.

He deleted his account after that.

His wife and fellow journalist Sagarika Ghose tweeted after that explaining his decision. She said an utterly insane campaign of abuse was being run against journalists from accounts that were being followed by ministers and PMO.

She also called upon Twitter to check why so many were opting to leave its network.  

Rajdeep Sardesai and Sagarika Ghose have a contentious relationship with supporters of BJP with which they differ ideologically. They are constantly trolled and abused.

Though Rajdeep Sardesai has spiritedly fended off the attacks on him, his patience seems to have snapped on Saturday afternoon.